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State Economic Development: Analyzing The Moderating Effects Of Business Climate On Economic Growth, Sean A. Brazier
State Economic Development: Analyzing The Moderating Effects Of Business Climate On Economic Growth, Sean A. Brazier
Theses and Dissertations
States across the country focus intensely on creating jobs, catalyzing capital investment, and stimulating economic output. They pursue different strategies, mixing and matching a variety of tactics in the pursuit of their economic objectives. While scholars have studied the relationship between economic development tactics and economic growth or business climate and economic growth, none to my knowledge have studied the impact of economic development efforts on economic outcomes while accounting for a state’s business climate.
I found economic development spending to be negatively associated with employment growth (other measures, real gross state product and per capita income growth, were not …
Factors Affecting Institutional Performance At High And Very High Research Universities: Policy Implications, Jose G. Alcaine
Factors Affecting Institutional Performance At High And Very High Research Universities: Policy Implications, Jose G. Alcaine
Theses and Dissertations
Higher education institutions in the Unites States (U.S.) are under stress. Universities and colleges in the U.S. face competing demands marked by steeply declining state and local appropriations and increased competition for research dollars and prestige. This stress is felt most acutely at high and very high research universities who must face these funding challenges while at the same time must serve a multiplicity of missions and stakeholders.
This study examines factors that influence institutional performance at high and very high research universities in the U.S. These high and very high research universities, as classified by the Carnegie Foundation for …